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The race
Ray Unified School District #3, in Pinal County's Copper Corridor, elects members of its Governing Board on November 3, 2026. The race is nonpartisan. Four candidates are running, and both incumbents whose seats are up are among them.
The roster comes from GoodParty.org's compilation of candidate filings: two 4-year seats, held by Tino Flores and Ashley Bravo, whose terms expire in 2026. One caution belongs up front: the Pinal County board listing also shows a third Ray seat — a 2-year appointed seat held by Shane Olsen since 2024 — expiring in 2026. Whether that seat is also on the November ballot could not be verified, so this article covers the two verified 4-year seats and flags the possible third in the record gaps. Pinal County published no official candidate list in a form we could retrieve, so we grade this roster as compilation-grade.
The candidates:
Tino Flores — Incumbent. Flores's seat expires in 2026 and he is running to keep it. He carries the one named endorsement in this race: the Pinal County Democratic Party's 2026 guide endorses Flores. No occupation, campaign platform, or board votes for Flores were retrieved in this pass.
Ashley Bravo — Incumbent. Bravo's seat also expires in 2026 and she is running to keep it. No campaign platform, endorsements, or board votes for Bravo were retrieved in this pass.
Scott Warren — Challenger. Warren is a verified candidate on the filing compilation. No occupation, campaign platform, endorsements, or prior public record for Warren was retrieved in this pass.
Terrece Flowers — Challenger. Flowers is a verified candidate on the filing compilation. No occupation, campaign platform, endorsements, or prior public record for Flowers was retrieved in this pass.
Pros and cons
Flores — Pros: Sitting incumbent, and the only candidate in the race with a named organizational endorsement (Pinal County Democratic Party). Cons: The endorsement and the incumbency are the whole sourced record retrieved — no platform or documented votes to price.
Bravo — Pros: Sitting incumbent standing for re-election; voters can weigh her current service. Cons: No sourced platform, endorsements, or documented votes retrieved.
Warren — Pros: Offers voters a non-incumbent choice. Cons: No sourced record — no occupation, platform, or endorsements retrieved.
Flowers — Pros: Offers voters a non-incumbent choice. Cons: No sourced record — no occupation, platform, or endorsements retrieved.
Record gaps
- Possible third seat, unverified: the county board listing shows a 2-year appointed Ray seat (Shane Olsen, appointed 2024) also expiring in 2026. GoodParty lists two open seats. Whether a third seat is on the ballot must be confirmed with the Pinal County School Office.
- No Pinal County official certified candidate list was retrievable; the roster rests on a filing compilation.
- No candidate questionnaires, campaign sites, or local-press profiles for any of the four candidates were retrieved in this pass.
OUR CALL
Our call: insufficient record — no endorsement.
What would earn one: confirmation of the seat count from the county, plus a sourced record for any candidate — a published platform, further named endorsements, or a documented governing record — that we can verify claim by claim before Election Day.
For the complete Election 2026 breakdown — every race, claim by claim — see the full coverage on our website.
Vote early. Research your candidates. Choose the best moderates, whatever their party — no extremism from either side. And encourage your friends and family to do the same.
Sources
- GoodParty.org — Ray Unified District school board election page (2026) — verified roster of four candidates; Flores and Bravo listed as the incumbents whose seats expire in 2026 — https://goodparty.org/elections/az/ray-unified-district/position/local-school-board
- Enumeration notes, AZ school boards (LiberalMind voter-guide research, October 25, 2026) — the Pinal Democrats' endorsement of Flores; the possible third (2-year, Shane Olsen) seat flagged from the Pinal County School Office's 2026/27 board listing
Result pending. No verified call (Associated Press or official) as of November 4, 2026. This page will be updated when the race is called or certified. The original article above is unchanged.
AI-assisted article — but the sources are human, and the facts are very real.